Remarks on Planlins: Fruit Trees. 63 



Art. II. Borne Remarks on the Planting of Fruit Trees; 

 more particularly illustrating the had effects resulting from 

 deep planting. By the Editor. 



The cultivation of fruit trees is now attracting so much 

 attention, that any remarks which have a bearing upon their 

 planting, or future management, are eagerly sought after by 

 individuals who are laying out gardens, and collecting together 

 all the choicest varieties of fruit, or who are renovating old 

 ones and replacing the old sorts with those of better quality. 

 It is gratifying to see the increasing taste for new and fine 

 fruits; and when it is taken into consideration that the best 

 varieties are as easily cultivated as those of inferior quality, 

 it is certainly preferable to select such as will afibrd a con- 

 stant succession of superior fruit. Twenty years ago, very 

 few of the fruits which are now geneially grown in our gar- 

 dens and produce abundant crops, were to be found in the 

 country: even ten years since, not more than half of the 

 many fine varieties which are now so much esteemed, and are 

 to be seen in many choice collections, were to be found only 

 in the grounds of the nurseryman; and very many of the best 

 have been fruited for the first time during the past five years. 

 Within the first named period, more than one hundred seed- 

 lings, of American growth, have been introduced to notice, 

 and, from their great excellence, have been extensively plant- 

 ed, to the exclusion of many of the foreign varieties. The 

 labors of the venerable Dr. Van Mons, and other German 

 and French pomoiogists, together with those of the late Mr. 

 Knight, have been the means of enriching our tables with an 

 immense number of superior varieties of fruits. 



The cultivation of fruit ti'ees is not so well understood as 

 it should be: and, from the want of a pi'oper knowledge of 

 planting, has arisen much disappointment in the production of 

 fine fruit. A judicious selection of soil, suitable to the nature 

 of the trees — its pioper preparation — careful planting — th.e 

 application of manure — and pruning, — are subjects which have 

 not been sufficiently attended to by a majority of cultivators, 

 when forming a collection of fruit trees. If the trees are only 

 placed in tiie ground, the work is considered as wholly per- 



